Friday, July 24

Cuts to heath insurance benefits prompt walkout at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center

Resident physicians and interns will hold a walkout at UCLA Ronald Reagan Medical Center on Wednesday in response to alleged cuts to health insurance benefits and restrictions to union access. Read more...

Photo: UCLA resident physicians and interns announced Friday that they will hold a walkout at Ronald Reagan Medical Center. The walkout, which will be held Wednesday, was in response to alleged cuts to health insurance benefits and restrictions to union access. (Daily Bruin file photo)


Hong Kong is now a city of protests and tear gas, a city indomitable in its ideals

I was on a two-week trip to visit family in Taiwan when I decided to make an impromptu visit to Hong Kong during its eighth week of political unrest. Read more...

Photo: Hong Kong has been experiencing mass protests for the last 10 weeks over a controversial extradition bill that would allow criminal suspects to be extradited to mainland China. Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam indefinitely suspended the bill July 9, but has refused to fully withdraw the bill. (Lauren Man/Daily Bruin)


UC ordered to pay $1.5 million to former UCLA employee in workplace hostility case

The University of California Board of Regents has been ordered to pay $1.58 million to a former UCLA employee over claims of a hostile work environment, according to a press release from the former employee’s lawyers Tuesday. Read more...

Photo: The University of California Board of Regents has been ordered to pay a former UCLA employee $1.58 million by a Los Angeles jury. The former employee claimed co-workers harassed her and made racially charged comments toward her. (Daily Bruin file photo)


Former student files lawsuit against UC alleging lack of due process in Title IX case

A former UCLA graduate student is suing the University of California Board of Regents on the basis that officials at UCLA and the UC denied him and other students due process in their Title IX cases, according to a press release from the student’s lawyers Saturday. Read more...

Photo: A former UCLA graduate student filed a lawsuit against the University of California Board of Regents Friday claiming UCLA denied him and other accused students due process in Title IX sexual misconduct proceedings. (Daily Bruin file photo)




Mellon Foundation grant allows for restructuring of Middle Eastern Studies curriculum

UCLA’s Center for Near Eastern Studies has been awarded a grant for a redesign of its curriculum, according to a university press release Friday. The Andrew W. Read more...

Photo: UCLA’s Center for Near Eastern Studies has been awarded a grant to support the redesign of its curriculum. Ali Behdad, the Center’s current director, previously oversaw a similar endeavor at the UCLA English department while serving as its former chair. (Courtesy of UCLA Newsroom)